Don't watch dirty videos at work: It seems like a common-sense rule, especially since the statewide embarrassment that was “porngate” is likely to still be fresh in the minds of Pennsylvania's public officials.

But that rudimentary lesson—learned from the ruined careers of two state Supreme Court justices and other state officials who had pornographic emails on their government computers—was apparently lost on a Monroe County magisterial district judge who last week was hit with ethics charges.

The Supreme Court's Judicial Conduct Board charged Judge Michael R. Muth with looking at pornography on multiple occasions in full view of the court staff at his chambers, nestled in the scenic mountainscape of the Poconos.