WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

The husband of a pregnant actress, accused of sending poison-laced letters to President Obama --

who originally blamed her husband for the crime --

 says it's "heartbreaking" to think that his spouse implicated him, but he harbors no anger and hopes to move on with his life.

"The way I look at it, being angry is a waste of energy," Nathaniel Richardson told ABC News. "She has done this to herself. She has destroyed my reputation and my life but there's a way up from this and if I sit here and focus on anger, I can't focus on getting on with my life."

With about 4.2 million "likes," George Takei is one of the most popular celebrities who maintains a Facebook account. But fans were disappointed to learn recently that many of Takei's witty posts are the work of ghostwriters.

The news broke when comedian Rick Polito let slip in an interview with media analyst Jim Romenesko that he gets paid $10 a post to write for Takei's Facebook. The reaction from Takei's fans, via Twitter and other forms of social media, ranged from disappointed to outraged.

But Takei himself brushed off the "scandal."

"What is this hoo-ha about my FB posts?" he wrote in an email to Wired.

"I have Brad [Altman], my husband, to help me and interns to assist. What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing."



The New York Times published the first installment of the Pentagon Papers on this day in 1971.

Although voicing a complaint about the press rather than the politicians, no less than Bob Haldeman, Nixon’s Chief of Staff, may have been the first to articulate the most enduring legacy of these events -

But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing:

You can't trust the government;

you can't believe what they say; and you can't rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this,

because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it's wrong, and the President can be wrong.

Perhaps Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most important 20th century poet (though largely unpublished and unknown in his lifetime), has a way of looking at all of this:

As long as I feel the full breeze in my hair
And see the sun shining strong on the leaves,
I will not ask for more.
What better thing could destiny give me
Than the sensual passing of life in moments
Of ignorance like this?

After his death in 1935, over 25,000 poems, letters and other bits were found in a trunk, written by Pessoa and his handful of "heteronyms" —

sustained fictitious personas, each given a distinct biography and writing style by their creator.

The postmodern result, say the critics, is "one of the most remarkable bodies of work of the century." Pessoa himself was a man of reclusive, legendary oddness among Lisbon's cafés.