These items from the news relate to the significance (if you’re rich, powerful and entitled) and insignificance (if you’re not) of life.

The bishop, the cyclist and a death on the road

“On Friday, the state’s attorney for Baltimore City announced charges againstSuffragan Bishop Heather Cook, one of the highest ranking officials in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, including criminal negligent manslaughter, driving while impaired and texting, and leaving the scene of an accident.” – The New York Times

OPEC tries stamping out frackers

“Competition in the oil business was, in John D. Rockefeller, Sr.’s view, a terrible thing — wasteful, counterproductive, conducive to crazy booms and busts.” Could the decline in gas prices come from OPEC’s modeling of Rockefeller’s practices? – BloombergView

In the US, one lesson from oil prices: Rich people win again

““In 2016 we will have less oil being produced, which will crimp the supply and boost prices again.” – The Guardian (US)

Articles like these cement staunch supporters for the one man who “gets it.”

Pope Francis’s holy war on capitalism and toxic inequality

We like “ … anticapitalist, anticonservative, socialist Pope Francis. Fortune magazine ranks him first among the ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.’ Tenure unlimited. Now he’s in an ideological war with U.S. Senate Majority boss Mitch McConnell’s Big Oil backed GOP as well as conservative ideologues. At war in America’s unstable, endlessly fickle, myopic, rigged political arena.” – MarketWatch