According to Merriam-Webster, a dragnet is a network of measures for the apprehension of criminals. Of course, those of us over a certain age associate the word “dragnet” with the old TV show, and later the movie, Dragnet. On the TV show, Jack Webb, as Sergeant Joe Friday, doggedly pursued his quarry, and told witnesses, […]
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Bananas
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the American author O. Henry coined the term Banana Republic. The term describes a politically and economically unstable country with stratified social classes, and a ruling class composed of the business and political elites. A nation that’s a banana republic is run by the wealthy business elites and […]