January 28
...serving up your daily dish.
Maybe it's damning with faint praise, but we kind of like the concept of a "Wisest Fool" contest, and even more so when our own Yogi Berra takes the prize. Nominating Berra was Denis Papathanasiou from Hoboken, NJ. Here's his winning entry published in the Economist...
Mr. Berra hardly qualifies as an intellectual: he is famous for such remarks as “You don't look so hot yourself” (in response to a comment that he looked cool in his summer suit), “What? You mean right now?” (when asked for the time of day), and “I take a two-hour nap, from one o'clock to four.” On second glance, however, his utterances depict a certain honest Zen-like wisdom: “If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else,”“It was hard to have a conversation with anyone—there were so many people talking.” Those qualities have inspired a miniature popular cult of books and seminars. Not bad for a humble baseball player of modest education.
