Tuesday evening roundup

Do you think they'd have remembered to leave my dressing on the side?

The art of effective rhetoric.

Crazy people. More importantly, ugly underpants.

Russ Parsons on farming:

What's political is also personal. If you believe in something, you should be willing to make sacrifices to support it, even if it's expensive or inconvenient. Wailing about farmers who use pesticides and then balking at paying extra for organic produce is hypocritical because the yields in organic farming are almost always lower. On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with doing the best you can whenever you can -- as long as you're willing to accept compromises from the other guy too.