I certainly agree with you re: Al Sharpton. He is the definition of narcissim.
The Higgs boson, whose discovery was announced just last week by all the geeks at the supercollider that allegedly produced a few hundred of them, is about as self important a particle as you could get in nature. It’s part of a new theory of gravity. Without Higgs bosons (or rather, something like a grits-bowl of Higgs boson guts — the scientists call it a “Higgs field” — spread out thinly throughout the universe), nothing would have any weight.
So Al Sharpton is quite the Higgs boson.