Gotta love the Summer Youth Employment Program: Nothing like a hard day's work to teach kids a thing or two about holding a job and personal responsibility and keep them away from things like gangs, violence, and illicit substances.

Well, gangs and violence, anyway.

A City Desk reader captured this sight with a cell phone cam yesterday morning, around 10:30 a.m., on the 1500 block of Marion Street NW:

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G'day,citizens. Daschle's out; so's Kwame Kilpatrick, but in a different way. Let's get to the links.

*D.C. Police are still on the lookout for Corey Harrison, the slippery fellow who went AWOL on his child support and then, once in custody, escaped from the United Medical Center in the 1300 block of Southern Ave. SE:

He escaped from a men’s room by climbing through the ceiling of the restroom and then making his way to another room. When he escaped, he was wearing a white T-shirt, boxer shorts and a handcuff on one wrist.

*Prince of Petworth teams with IntangibleArts to wield a video camera in imitation of PBS. (See above.) Nice shades, yer highness!

*The D.C. Council, perhaps as a nod to our demonstrated lack of gumption in the face of actual weather, wants you to clean ice & snow off your car but won't fine you if you don't. (Via D.C. Wire)

*Still got your button from the Capital Fringe Festival? Julianne announces your February perks.

*Juliet Lapidos answers all of your dirty little Michael Phelps/ganja-related questions.

*ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: George Washington was elected (1789) and reelected (1792) as our first Prez. And you can be damn sure that those pamphleteers liveblogged the shit out of his first 100 days.

The Legal Times' Mike Scarcella covered a gem of a case this week in D.C. Circuit Court. Antoine Blalock, who claims to be a music performer, was convicted following his arrest in front of the the D.C. police 7D substation on Alabama Avenue SE. According to testimony, Blalock pulled a handgun out of his trunk, fired several rounds into the air, and shouted that the police "should leave us alone and let us sell our weed!"

When the cops came out, Blalock reportedly dropped his drawers, prompting the cops to cover his junk with a towel.  They then found 23 bags of pot in his car. Blalock claimed it was all a stunt to get a record label to notice him.

Blalock's lawyer, Edward Sussman, repeatedly called the case bizarre, and then added to that characterization himself. See, just because Blalock showed up with weed and told the cops people should be allowed to sell it, he didn't intend to sell it. Sussman said it's just like the Nats: They lose a lot, but when they get out on the field they don't intend to lose.

Huh?

And the new guy likes to get high.