For reals. It amuses me that people don't understand when you're contracting with a public entity spending public money, your contract is public.

We did it all the time back when I worked for a college newspaper. We'd also source them from fraternities. Coolio requested a bucket of chicken and a full bottle of honey for use in his performance (he poured it on his hand and made a co-ed in the audience lick it off).

It's a contract with a state agency (The University of Oklahoma) which makes it a public document. Schools do have privacy laws, but they're mostly to shield your average personal information, grades, medical information information and etc. Not tour riders.

Yeah but... The University of Oklahoma is a public university, and therefore a state entity. Any contracts the university signs are considered public information and legal to FOIA, which is what the university says the newspaper did. I say this as someone who's worked on both sides of the coin as a journalist and…

Paleo people. It was a paleo restaurant before it went vegan.

Nutria, also known as coypu, are a completely different species than beaver, yo. But yes. They are both large rodent species that live in waterways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu

Nutria fur is actually really nice. It doesn't look like much on the little critters themselves, but while I was doing my research I got to try on a really nice, vintage full sheared nutria coat and it was what I imagined Hollywood feels like. Back in the day it was apparently very fashionable.

It wasn't bad, it was in a stew so I honestly couldn't taste it that much. But I had a hard time getting over eating squirrels (I think they're cute) so it just kind of made me sad. I had the same problem with frog legs. I just kept thinking of The Muppet Movie when Doc Hopper keeps trying to get Kermit to shill for…

I bought these nutria dog biscuits for my inlaw's dog (I have cats). They were horrified but the dog loved them! http://www.marshdog.com/MarshDog/Home.…

Nutria is attempting to be marketed as "guilt-free fur" (because it is an invasive species that was imported and is destroying the environment, so it is being killed anyway in a state funded eradication effort) so if you want some environmentally conscious fur, check it out! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/fas…

I moved from Texas to deep south Louisiana for a job at a community newspaper about eight years ago. I live on the bayou among the Cajuns, who are notorious for eating just about anything. This is true. I have had squirrel and frogs legs and hogs head cheese like it ain't no thang since moving here.

Ugh. My coworker has a cherubic little kid who comes to stay in her office after school sometimes. She is extremely cute but also thinks it's funny to hide around dark corners and jump out at you screaming. Because I have the tendency to scream a string of expletives every time I'm scared, she's decided she likes…

Melatonin is some good shit. My boyfriend is a night owl and started a teaching job this past year that he has to get up before 5 a.m. to make it to. Melatonin is the only way he gets to sleep early enough to make it there.

Melatonin is some good shit. My boyfriend is a night owl and started a teaching job this past year that he has to…

As a teenager of the late 90s/early 2000s JNCO era, I am looking forward to more years of my mom sneaking up behind me to try to pull down my pants in an attempt to show me how stupid baggy jeans are. JOKES ON YOU MOM. THEY'RE BACK.

Congrats! As another writer from Bumfuck, Texas, (I know a bunch of people who toiled in newspapers up in your hood too) it's nice to see peeps living the dream! Good luck!

If you're going to do commentary on these kind of videos/cultural events/whatever this was about, at least make it coherent (and link an article that doesn't refute the sentence you're linking it in).

I think chemistry can develop over time. Someone else mentioned having a "type" they're attracted to that was actually bad for a relationship. I was the same way. When I started dating my boyfriend I had a "type" that he was not — I had tended to date smart kinda dickish alpha dudes thinking that all the competitive…

One of the favorite stories of my old editor at the small Louisiana newspaper where I worked was about the time she interviewed Steve-O because he was arrested on some kind of obscenity charge for stapling his scrotum to his leg during his act.

A few years ago I was working as a reporter at a minor community daily newspaper in coastal Louisiana when the Gulf oil spill happened. Given that this became one of the biggest news events in the country for months and I was literally in the town that housed BP's base of operations, my life suddenly became very busy…

They're not always a fancy pants thing... I learned about bathroom attendants from one of the drunkest, lamest bars in New Orleans, Pat O'Brien's! I assume they're in there to diligently clean barf and ensure too many people don't pass out in the bathroom.