Occasional Drug Use

Blago's trial enters the Twilight Zone:

• Sam Adam Jr. livens up the room as his animated cross examination of Lon Monk begins. Adam's questions cut deep, to Lon Monk and Rod Blagojevich's friendship beginning back at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, Calif.
  
  Adam says Monk and Blagojevich lived together in law school, they shared secrets, talked about girls. Monk agrees.
  
  Adam says the two of them never committed any crimes together back then, right?
  
  Monk: "Other than some occasional drug use," Monk says to some laughter by spectators. "Yes." Adam: "I'm not here to ask you about that."

And this:

• Potential jurors waiting to be questioned in Rod Blagojevich's case discussed the trial's news coverage with each other last week, apparently flouting a judge's order just days after they were told to stop reading or listening to such news, a former prospective juror told the Chicago Sun-Times.

  One of the people who was in the room during the discussion is now on the Blagojevich jury, said David Hallstrom -- formerly juror number 169.

We remember that at least one, maybe two, members of the George Ryan jury ended up having criminal records that were the basis for all sorts of political intrigue where lawyers for both sides may have known this in the hopes of throwing a wrench into things or basing an appeal on it. We certainly look like we're headed that way again.