“Georgia Magistrate Judge Anthony Peters was thrown off the bench after a pattern of bizarre behavior that included pot-smoking, kicking in doors, and pulling a gun out in the courthouse and asking a fellow judge: ‘I am not scared. Are you all scared?'” Read the rest here.

Having failed to push through a bill that would force partisan budget cuts in exchange for disaster relief, the Speaker now faces a range of bad options if he hopes to avoid a government shutdown, which he does.