Rhetoric is often about "good guys" and "bad guys." Even more basically, it concerns who is in and who is out, what is included and what is excluded, who is placed inside and who outside a cultural community, a political movement, a professional organization. These ins and outs concern both the commonplaces of rhetoric and the rhetoric of common spaces. Such rhetorical locations are not simply spatial; they are also temporal. Rhetoric is about time and especially about timing: the kairos of the present, the traditions of the past, the utopias of the future. In this paper, the author discusses the ins and outs of rhetoric by focusing on places in time along some rhetorical paths of thought, paths that traverse various public and private spheres, such as the academic, the non-academic, and the everyday. In three sections, this paper traces rhetorical paths across these three overlapping domains: first following rhetoric through academic space/time, primarily through the institutional history of rhetoric as a university interdiscipline; then moving to rhetorical theory and practice beyond the academy; and ending with something on the rhetorical hermeneutics of the everyday. (Contains 34 notes.)