Lapham's Quarterly

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"When a former leader of the Tijuana cartel was shot in the back of the head by a man dressed in a clown costume, five hundred clowns from around Latin America joined together at the International Clown Meeting in Mexico City and staged a fifteen-minute laughathon 'to demonstrate their opposition to the generalized violence that prevails in our country.'"

Wit, Whine, & Whimsy: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/miscellany/wit-whine-whimsy.php