Inane Impact Man

UPDATE: [[I should have been more familiar with No Impact Man's blog--and the scope of his activism-- before being so dismissive of him. Thanks to the reader below for providing a larger and fairer context.]] I'm not above stunts myself, especially if it scores me a long feature assignment. The last one I undertook in earnest involved following my garbage eight years ago. But this No Impact Man schtick has rankled since I first read about it in the Times. No question, it's a brilliant idea and maybe I'm just envious that I didn't dream it up first. Even then, it wouldn't have mattered since I have no self-discipline. Hell, I must have blown a brownstone down payment on a depot full of Thomas the Train merchandise, which now sits largely unused in a messy clutter in a precious corner of my postage-stamp sized apt. Anyway, the lack of a ...