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The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXVI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXVI

Mar 23, 2026

Mountain View Central Legal Center Oddly enough, after all the preparation, the ceremony was brief.  A small chamber to the side of the main courtroom was used for marriages.  Mike Junior stood at the front of the room in front of Tarbos’ Chief...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXVI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXIV

Mar 9, 2026

Fifteen kilometers inland The setting was beautiful.  Fifteen kilometers from the outskirts of Mountain View was the tiny community of Rangely, a farming and ranching town of about two thousand.  And just outside of that community was the Rangely Retreat, a...

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Semi-notorious local political gadfly and general pain in the ass. I’m firmly convinced that the Earth and all its inhabitants were placed here for my personal amusement and entertainment, and I comport myself accordingly. Vote Animal/STEVE SMITH 2028!

Alaska Ramblings I – Seward

Aug 2, 2021 | , ,

The Place On Sunday, July 25th, Mrs. Animal and I took our two visiting daughters down the Kenai Peninsula to the small town of Seward, the first of many neat little places in Alaska that we intend to visit – and on which I will report to you here. Like many places in...

Ask Animal I

Jul 5, 2021 |

Ask Animal My colleagues ZARDOZ and STEVE SMITH have been offering advice and counsel to Glibs, lurkers, ladies and gentlemen and persons of irregular birth for some time now, so I thought I’d join the fun.  However, just to set myself apart, instead of lifting advice...