Rainy Monday lunchtime links

A succession of cold fronts has started traversing the Chicago area, so after an absolutely gorgeous Saturday we're now in the second day of cold, wet, gray weather. In other words, autumn in Chicago.

So here's what I'd like to read today but probably won't have time:

• Having been caught out in a bald-faced lie, the White House has been sending condolence letters by overnight mail to Gold-Star families since Wednesday.
• E.J. Dionne says, "What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen."
• Microsoft is adding Cray supercomputers to Azure. That, I have to say, is cool.
• Deeply Trivial reviews the grant review process.
• Chicago is apparently offering Amazon incentives worth $2.25 bn, including $100m in free land. I'm skeptical.
• A company called What3Words has divided the world up into tiny squares and give every one of them a unique three-word address. (Interactive map here.) For example, my favorite pub in London is at ages.mats.medium; but my favorite pub in the world is at spot.lung.scarf.)
• Economist Raj Chetty says opportunity in the U.S. is basically a coin-toss, depending on your ZIP Code.

Meeting time. Yay.