Kooky Dot-Coms Cataloged, And Mocked-With Hindsight

F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts , by Philip J. Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, 191 pages, $18.

dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath , by J. David Kuo. Little, Brown, 314 pages, $25.95.

dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold , by John Cassidy. HarperCollins, 372 pages, $25.95.

The dot-com era may Read More

Karl Marx Had It Right About Greedy Bastards

On a recent weekend, Master Francis and I drifted over to the annual Potato Festival at the Hampton Day School. This should not be confused in readers’ minds with the annual Potatohead Festival, which was simultaneously taking place in East Hampton. This is also known as the Hamptons International Film Festival-a five-day period when pointless Read More