Your Friday Afternoon News Update

-- If you teach at a university, don't claim Dick Cheney had anything to do with Sept. 11.

-- Some nearby counties may get excessive heat. But, really, is there much of a dif between 110 and 119?

-- Can you believe there was even any minor DEBATE about extending the Voting Rights Act?!?

-- And finally, we close the work week with the latest hit from that rap/hip-hop master, DJ Sen. Ted Stevens, "A Series of Tubes."