Rants

According to the AP, a Florida teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for persuading his senile grandmother into holding a gun in a homemade “gangster rap” video.

A British man drank so much alcoholic cider that his skin turned orange, according to The Telegraph.

Raves

According to the AP, a Florida sheriff’s deputy adopted an eleven-month-old black lab mix and trained him to detect illegal narcotics.

A fully implantable artificial heart designed to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donations will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, according to the AFP.