Fellow Congressman Joe Sestak compares Republican policies to a bag of dog droppings and actually appears in the ad holding a bag.

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Paris employs a huge work force to keep the city clean and its use of golf cart-like vehicles to vacuum dog droppings has received admiring -- and sometimes wry -- attention in the international media.

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The only constants are a ball and something to shoot at whether it's a garage door, the immaculate goals at Barcelona's Camp Nou or the space between two sweatshirts on a bumpy threadbarepatch strewn with dog droppings.

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The way I see it, in the current "game" the dog owners try to hide the droppings, and the managers try to catch and punish the owners.

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