You know those hugely popular "Live Strong" rubber bracelets that were started by some Lance Armstrong cancer foundation and then got swallowed into a massive trend machine? Well if you don't, well now you do know.
Anyway, they're huge here too ... but naturally people don't buy them to support cancer research or anything like that. I think the causes are for anything *but* cancer or AIDS or you know ... good causes. It runs more along "I'm paying for this bracelet to support rural Chinese sweatshops."
I noticed one of my students was wearing two of the bracelets in class yesterday. I paused for a moment because written on them wasn't some internet address or random characters (as seems to be popular here) but WWJD or "What Would Jesus Do."
I wonder if my student knows what those initials stand for? I doubt it. I wonder if he is Christian? I also doubt that. It doesn't matter at all, of course. But I was intrigued at how that expression made it over as trendy accessory wear.