Dog days of mailbag

Facebook, vacation, workhorses, and adversarial legalism

I am really not a fan of August weather in general and wish the Inflation Reduction Act had a provision to make this level of heat and humidity illegal.

But until then…

Melinda Crawford: Can you please go on Bill Maher and promote your book? Maher has a lot of interesting ideas but he is completely obtuse when it comes to all things regarding families and children (which is like, the most important issue for most other Americans, i imagine)

I promise you that I am not turning down invitations to go on television and promote my book! It’s all a question of which guests Bill Maher wants to have.

Laurie Clark-Michalek: Hey Matt, I work for FB. I have a few reasons for working there, mostly that my coworkers are great, and the problems are interesting, and the pay is better than you find elsewhere. But beyond those selfish reasons, I do also believe that letting people talk to each other is probably good, and effective advertising is better for the world than ineffective advertising.

You real…