The Times today has one of its periodic check-ins on the rapid gentrification of Harlem and this time they focus on dog shit. Specifically how prevalent it is and how the area's newcomers are, reportedly, not picking their pooches crap up. But the real fun of the story is how the Times and their wonderful standards bend over backwards to avoid using the word shit (which, yes, we didn't use in the hed for SEO purposes—a blog has to eat!). more ›