Mitt Romney matters.  Barack Obama matters.  Antonin Scalia matters.  John Boehner matters.  Elizabeth Warren may matter.  Dick Lugar no longer matters.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad matters.  Benjamin Netanyahu matters.  Hillary Clinton matters.  Ayman al-Zawahri may matter.  Osama bin Laden no longer matters.

Beyonce matters.  Jennifer Lopez matters.  Prince William matters.  George Clooney may matter.  Andy Rooney no longer matters.

Your iPhone matters.  Google matters.  Facebook matters.  Kodak no longer matters.

Matthew 7:12 matters.  Aung San Suu Kyi matters.  Ghandi matters — “Through our pain we will make them see their injustice.”  Bill Gates matters.  The Pope no longer matters.

Dark energy matters.  Dark matter matters.  Quantum entanglement matters, especially to Alice and Bob.  Albert Einstein may still matter.  Cold fusion no longer matters.

I may not matter.  You don’t matter.  He and she (and it) don’t matter.  We don’t matter.  You still don’t matter.  They never did matter.