"Mr.French" is a nom-de-net, evolved from a nickname bestowed upon me in the early 90s by a way cool workplace colleague. There are a number of people - for better or worse - who know me by the nickname. Briefly: I'm a middle-aged white guy, the father of two incredible sons, an occasional writer, a lapsed musician and a full-time cube farm serf; unabashedly liberal / progressive / independent, cranky about the condition of my country (the United States of America), thanks to extremist paleoconservatism and the Bush/Cheney co-presidency - the worst, most destructive presidential administration in my lifetime, probably in my country's history (though they and their advocates do provide scads of fodder for lampooning).