David Cook: Jolie’s decision
When thinking about Angelina Jolie's breasts, I did the only thing any man would do.
David Cook: The Gatsby hangover
The new movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" premiered on screens across America last week.
Cook: The deep end of the ocean
To get inside Shonda Mason's home, step wide past the brown-and-white pit bull leashed to the front porch and into the living room where a muted "Sports Center" plays on one TV and old reruns of '80s cop shows on another.
Cook: Day 48
On Palm Sunday night, 48 days ago, many of our city's gang leaders gathered around a wooden dining-room table, some of them sitting, some standing, all agreeing to put down their weapons.
David Cook: Security on the river
Riverbend is like a pile of kindling that, each summer, refuses to light.
David Cook: Mercy and jail
Justin Tabor - the Hamilton County deputy sheriff who bought beer for teenagers - still has a job. Thousands of recession-hit people don't, but this guy does.
Cook: Suttle’s unending death
It's there in this one-page letter from the Department of Justice. Right there.
Cook: Personal fouls
This week, the wide world of sports grew even wider. Jason Collins, a journeyman backup center for the Washington Wizards, officially came out of the closet, becoming the first openly gay professional male athlete playing in the four major team sports.
David Cook: A tail of two cities
This morning, the sheriff's office takes over control of the Murray County Animal Shelter in Chatsworth, Ga. This news is not necessarily Cruella De Vil bad, but sure isn't St. Francis good.
David Cook: Take back the TCAP
Between 2003 and 2009, the Tennessee Department of Education paid more than $89 million in contracts to six corporations that create the process of standardized tests our public school students are required to take. (Roughly half the money came from federal funds, according to U.S. Department of Education documents).