Cook: A Happy Grunter’s, I mean, Father’s Day to you
I am a father, not a caveman.
Cook: The difference between skin color, race and racism
Since so many of us are talking about Rachel Dolezal's racial fakery in Spokane, Wash., it's also important to talk about this:
Cook: After Peyton, go shake hands with this guy
In two weeks, Peyton Manning comes to Athens, Tenn., to speak at the 9th annual Chamber of Commerce Benefit Dinner. (Last year, it was Herschel Walker. The year before, Nick Saban.)
Cook: Missed opportunities in the Best Outdoor City
We are America's Best Outdoor Town Ever.
Cook: Folding chair to the heart: inside live pro wrestling
Hockey, schmockey. And LeBron can go LeBye. Pro football? How deflating. NASCAR? Gentleman, start your naps.
Cook: 13 solutions to the problem that is public schools
Tuesday, I published a first-person account of what it's like inside one local teacher's public school classroom. In short: profoundly difficult.
Cook: Teacher honestly tells how things are getting worse
What it's like inside one public school classroom
Cook: Float like a butterfly, play like a kid
Over the years as a player, coach and athletic director, Sam Parfitt's seen it all.
Cook: Humanity, sexuality are beautifully complicated
For many Chattanoogans, understanding our gay, lesbian and transgender neighbors is difficult, emotional and confusing.
Cook: Where’s the beef? Where’s the sex and violence?
I am fed up to my "Clockwork Orange" eyeballs with the violent, sexualized and hyper-greedy narratives that typify too many commercials these days. Turn on the TV, and it's like Caligula wrote the script.