A California judge has lost his job for neglecting to mind his manners. Bruce Van Voorhis was canned after a state judicial watchdog group found 11 acts of misconduct in an inquiry into his behavior. Transgressions included telling a public defender from Ecuador to “lose the accent” and throwing files at a clerk. He also wrongly badgered a defense attorney in front of a jury and suppressed evidence that was otherwise admissible to see how a rookie prosecutor would handle it. This is not his first run-in with Miss Manners; in 1992, the judicial commission concluded he was rude to court staff and attorneys, but did not remove him from office.