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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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“Farmer Who Put Up Sign Claiming Democrats Are ‘Party of Parasites’ Has Taken $1 Million in Farm Subsidies”
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J. Kingston Pierce
is a longtime Seattle journalist and author. His non-fiction books include San Francisco: Yesterday and Today, Seattle: Yesterday and Today, and Eccentric Seattle. He is the editor of The Rap Sheet, a crime-fiction blog that has won the Spinetingler Award and been nominated twice for Anthony Awards; writes the book art-oriented Killer Covers blog; is senior editor of January Magazine, a Web-based literary journal; and is a contributing editor of CrimeReads. For almost six years, Pierce served as lead crime-fiction blogger for Kirkus Reviews.

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