Monday afternoon links

Busy day today, but I finished a major task at work just now. As I'm waiting for the CI system to finish compiling and pushing out a test build, I'm going to read these:

• Jonathan Chait shares his chilling observations from the National Socialist Conservatism Conference in Miami.
• Gen-Xers like me have started contending with...middle age.
• The Chicago City Council doesn't like working with the CTA, even as everyone in the city complains about CTA frequency and reliability. Maybe if we stopped thinking of the CTA as a business and started thinking of it as a public service...hmm...
• Daniel Herriges admonishes just about everyone for the muddled thinking in statements like "they should put a Trader Joe's there."

Finally, we got our first official (trace) snow of the season this morning, even as forecasters predict temperatures over 21°C this weekend. While I'm packing. All day.