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With a hat tip to the City Paper's Mike DeBonis, today we find that one of our esteemed D.C. Council members isn't just complaining about a congressional amendment that would gut the District's gun laws -- he's trying to get even with one of its sponsors.

Reader Jason Cragg sent over this capture of a sign placed at 5th and Eye Streets NW, right in the middle of Inauguration Island. You're reading it right: portions of downtown have been declared a "Prostitution Free Zone" for the Inaugural celebration period. The best part? It has an expiration date, as though at all other times, hookers have free reign over downtown Washington -- hey, at least the MPD is honest.

You asked for it, and now the Post is dishing it up. Sharon Waters, 42, who was fired as the manager of the Dupont Circle Metro station after she was caught in a sex sting operation, has agreed to attend a court-approved diversion program for prostitutes. If she successfully completes the program, which involves two days a week of therapy over four months, solicitation charges against her will be dropped. The other Metro employee involved in the sting, custodian Pamela Goins, is scheduled to appear in court on Friday. Both Waters and Goins were fired from Metro.

The local Tampa Bay FOX affiliate, FOX13, is reporting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known in the media as the D.C. Madam who was last month convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, has been found dead in Tarpon Springs, FL, of an apparent suicide.

If the D.C. Madam is convicted and no one cares, does she make a sound? Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam who got every Washington watcher all hot and bothered last year over her impending trial and purported client list, and then proceeded to bore everyone to tears with how mundane the scandal turned out to be, was found guilty today on charges of racketeering, mail fraud and money laundering. Not that you probably cared one way or the other. We know we didn't.

A user on the Washington, D.C. page of the USASexGuide's massage parlor online discussion forum was kind enough to link to a post of ours earlier this week, at which point we were alerted to the web site's existence. And boy oh boy, does it contain mounds of helpful/hilarious information about which Asian massage parlors in the District offer the best "full service" technicians. In other words, this is a chat room for men to share with each other where they can find massage parlors that trade in sex workers. Some of the terms used, along with some small images at the top of the page, are NSFW, so proceed with some caution when you follow this link. UPDATE: It should be noted that not every single one of the massage parlors mentioned are necessarily "Asian". The vast majority of posters on this web site refer to AMPs, or Asian Massage Parlors, but there do appear to be some establishments mentioned that employ women who are not Asian.

It's always exciting when major sex scandals elsewhere turn out to have local connections. If you somehow haven't been inundated with the news already for the past couple of hours, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has publicly apologized after having been caught on a federal wiretap arranging for a prostitute to meet him in a hotel room. Turns out, the hotel room in question was right here in D.C., though it's unclear which hotel that might have been. Spitzer stayed at the historic Renaissance Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Ave. on Feb. 13, the night in question, but hotel records show the room number the prostitute allegedly visited was registered under a different name that night.

Third District Police Commander Larry McCoy sent out the following announcement of arrests related to a prostitution ring working out of the Washington Plaza Hotel in Thomas Circle.

The Prostitution Enforcement Unit (PEU), under the direction of Insp. Brian Bray, conducted a hotel operation at the Washington Plaza Hotel targeting adult and juvenile prostitutes and johns. The operation took place at # 10 Thomas Cir. NW. As a result of the operation 11 individuals were arrested. There were no other incidents that occurred during the operation.

The Thomas Circle hotel is a well-known downtown spot to pick up prostitutes -- some of you may remember Wizards forward Andray Blatche was arrested for solicitation there in August. Assistant Chief Diane Groomes followed up on McCoy's report to say that the hotel tipped off police to the illegal activity happening there. Could these arrests spell the beginning of the end of Thomas Circle serving as a hotbed for hookers?