I need to defend the judge there. He had a server that he thought was private that had dumb "College Humor" style pictures-- someone actually dug them up from a cache. Not very tasteful, but just the kind of stuff that "funny" people forward around to each other.
A lawyer who he ruled against on another matter decided to try to go after him and the LA Times obliged by characterizing what the judge had as basically a bestiality web site.