[alloysteel]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est
"Of the dead, speak nothing if not good."

This admonition would probably be wasted on most of the posters on Free Republic, if recent sampling is any guide.

Lord knows, it is going to be plenty hard to make that straddle.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So when Hitler or Stalin died we should have held our tongues?

[NurdlyPeon]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est "Of the dead, speak nothing if not good."

John McCain is dead. Good.