Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe JUDGE LOSES JOB FOR RUDENESS A California judge is the first to lose his job for persistent rudeness, included telling a public defender to "lose his accent." Advertisement Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, 54, lost his state Supreme Court appeal and his job. Van Voorhis said he had improved his behavior since coming under investigation and deserved a lesser punishment. The Commission on Judicial Performance ordered his removal after compiling 11 acts of misconduct between June 1999 and December 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. According to his lawyer, Van Voorhis is the first to be fired for his courtroom demeanor in the commission's 42-year history. NOT-SO-TIDY HOUSE IS ART PROJECT Art lovers in London are being invited to visit a "home-art project" -- essentially wandering through the home of 37-year-old Daniel Wade and his family. According to organizers, the intention of home art is "to challenge or confirm notions of the middle-class family and domestic space." For the next six months, visitors on one Sunday of the month can walk through the Wade home after being greeted by a security guard who passes out a "guide for the perplexed visitor." The guide includes instructions to remove shoes and to not talk to the family. Advertisement "It reminds me of the houses I know. It's untidy, but not dirty. It seems an ordered untidiness but I wouldn't call it art," one art lover tells the London Telegraph. D.C. PLAYING CARDS AID RUSSIANS With the warming relations between Russia and the United States, many in Russia are realizing that what happens on Pennsylvania Ave. affects them almost as much as Red Square. The "United Cards of America" is Russia's answer to the U.S. military's "Iraqi most-wanted" playing cards, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 36-cards identify: President George W. Bush as "convinced that God has a plan for him," Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan as "the second-most powerful man in the world," and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld as "the face of struggle with terrorism." POLICE INVESTIGATE CAMP ALLEGATIONS Pennsylvania police are investigating allegations of sexual abuse of three teens attending a football camp, sources tell the New York Post. One of the alleged three victims told police he was held down by three older teens and abused with a broomstick but he did not immediately report the attack until he heard two more boys had been attacked in similar manner. Advertisement Pennsylvania state troopers have been interviewing the alleged Long Island, N.Y., victims, suspects and others, according to spokesman Trooper Bill Satkowski. The Post says two of the alleged victims were still bleeding four days after the alleged assault.
