• The cooling kids: At a Pennsylvania town-hall meeting Wednesday, Barack Obama said Al Gore would play a key role in his administration's handling of global warming. "I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this [global warming/homeless polar bear] problem," Obama told the crowd.

• Touchdown!: After much speculation, DirecTV subscribers will, in fact, be able to watch the third season of critically acclaimed, barely surviving drama Friday Night Lights starting Oct. 1. Other viewers can catch the episodes on NBC later this winter. During a presentation to journalists, Ben Silverman, the NBC honcho and savior of the show said he saw, "six or seven of you smile," or as they're also known: The total viewership of Friday Night Lights.

• Off the records: If you're a celeb in Los Angeles, probably best to avoid seeking medical treatment at the UCLA Medical Center. An employee at the hospital was fired after leaking details of Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer to the National Enquirer. This comes less than a month after over a dozen hospital employees were fired for snooping around Britney Spears' medical records.

WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Morrissey is no racist, Borat gets off, The Hills spreads to VH1, and caffeine is good for you!

• It was really nothing: Word Magazine has issued a public apology to Morrissey after suggesting he was a racist hypocrite in its March edition. Word's piece on the former Smiths frontman referenced an earlier article that appeared in NME and resulted in the Moz taking legal action against the rag, which is still ongoing.

• Nice, he like: A federal judge has thrown out a defamation case against Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming Cohen was acting as a journalist when he chased a businessman down the street in the Borat film.

• Harsh reality: Lauren Conrad heartbreaker and Laguna Beach/Hills alum Jason Wahler is getting his own VH1 reality show. Wahler says it "It'll be the real-life version of Entourage." Right ... what about your rehab buddy?

• Upper: Drink your coffee, Gramps. A new study finds that caffeine may help protect the brain and lower the rise of dementia. After being told we're getting cancer from our cell phones all week, this feels so good.

• Power couple: Bill and Hillary Clinton are said to be making direct appeals to superdelegates, telling them that Obama has no chance of winning in the general election. And then Bill yells at them. And then apologizes.

• Top down: A Justice Department memorandum released earlier in the week adds to the mounting evidence that prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo may have involved signals from upper-level officials and not just crazy kids with digital cameras. But, you already knew that.