Kip Austin Hinton

in 1994, at ohio state university, i learned two important things: the depth of african american writers, and website design. the internet was still very young. most content was for tech nerds, the military-industrial complex, and usenet communities (dinosaurs left over from 1979). email, back then, required a program called eudora . and file-sharing required an archaic protocol called gopher . - i was studying literature. and realized that unless you were interested in the core canon of white male english-speaking authors -- shakespeare, dickens, whitman, frost, twain, hemingway (and lessers like bradbury, clarke, orwell, and asimov, who did science fiction, favored by those tech nerds) -- the "world wide web" (it was called by all three names then) was not for you. - in this context, an african studies professor at ohio state taught us about zora neale hurston , a black woman who wrote books in the 1930s. in the 1930s, if you were a rich white male in america, literature wa...

this is a good chart from the houston chronicle . it shows delegate counts. the relationship between counties, districts, votes, and delegates. - clinton wins some - district 26 is san antonio, and it doesn't matter that clinton won, because the delegate count comes out as a tie (2 - 2). district 27, east rio grande valley, clinton won by a landslide. but in the delegate count, she gets only a small advantage (2 - 1). - obama wins some - district 13 is downtown houston, obama won in a landslide and gets a huge delegate advantage (5 - 2). district 14 is austin, obama also gets a good advantage (5 - 3). - district 26 has about the same population as district 14. but in Austin, more people voted for a democrat two years ago. so they got a delegate bonus. the pattern extends throughout texas, and most of the districts turned out as close as district 26 or 27. this is a strange system, but it adds up to one thing. - clinton won a majority of the votes in about 90% of texas counties. ver...