Changes:

Now that Alberto "The Geneva Convention is obsolete" Gonzales is slated to become the head of the Department of Justice, we can look forward to a new attitude - and a new seal:



Translation: The ends justify the means. (Other Latin expression pages are here and here.)

posted by Quiddity at 11/12/2004 05:15:00 AM

That's great. :) Except not really. Perhaps 'apt' is better.

By  Anonymous, at 11/13/2004 9:20 AM  

This is great. Did you make this? Permission to use on another web site? Creative Commons license, maybe?

Thank you very much.

By  Ralph Dratman, at 11/13/2004 9:33 PM  

or

Quis custodes ipsos custodet?

By  Anonymous, at 11/13/2004 11:36 PM  

res ipsa loquitur

By  Anonymous, at 11/14/2004 3:17 AM  

One small change with another meaning of exitus and you get this - acta exituum probat - "It esteems acts of death" -

By  Anonymous, at 11/14/2004 6:42 AM  

My former college roommates and I had an expression: "Effodis tuum sepulchrum" which seems appropriate here. (We usually just said, "effodis" for short, when someone was doing something particularly foolhardy/self-destructive.) Roughly translated: "Dig your own grave."

By  Friends of Hudson, at 11/14/2004 7:19 PM  

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