$5,000 Photo Contest in Taipei!

Idle-Free Taipei’s “What a Waste!” Photo Contest!!!

Last year, Idle-Free Taipei’s idea to turn off scooter engines at traffic lights was entered in a “Carbon Reducing Contest” hosted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Bureau of Energy. We took third place in the contest and were given NT$5,000 in prize money.

Over here at Idle-Free Taipei, we’ve already saved a lot of money by going “idle-free,” so we thought we’d give the NT$5,000 back to YOU in the form of a PHOTO CONTEST!!

Leave your guns at home, kids.

This past holiday season, my Christmas Wish was for every gun to turn into a Kiss Gun.

Last week was a perfect example of people who would have benefited from my wish:

In Texas, a 15 year old kid brought a pellet gun to school and assaulted another student. According to this New York Times brief, he not only didn't tell anyone it wasn't a "real" gun, but he also pointed it at police officers on the scene. After not complying with the police officers' multiple demands to drop the gun, he was shot twice and killed.

Have a dreary day!

pathetic fallacy

noun

the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with humantraits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.