Great minds think alike. Our editor-in-chief, Mark D. Fefer, has long inveighed

Great minds think alike. Our editor-in-chief, Mark D. Fefer, has long inveighed against the scourge of yellow paged phone books dumped on our doorsteps and in our apartment hallways without our permission. In our Internet age, they’re a ridiculous, environmentally wasteful travesty, clogging up dumpsters (and landfills) and not always recycled as they should be.Now The New York Times’ David Pogue chimes in: “I don’t even want to think about the acres of trees that gave their lives for these books,” he writes. We agree. And, more important, our boss agrees. Now maybe, after our city went after plastic shopping bags, we should start taxing those infernal Yellow Pages people for each paper brick they inflict on us.