• • New Year’s reflection reveals power of pop music 
Jeremiah Tucker, Joplin Globe (Joplin, MO) Atlas Shrugged  | A few days before New Year's I was cleaning out my childhood bedroom, and I kept throwing stuff in the Goodwill pile, which my dad would pick up and say, "But you used to love this." One time he was referring to old "Garfield" books, then a copy of "Atlas Shrugged," both of which I now regard to be equally sophisticated. But he was right -- at one time I liked them.   Published: 2013-01-04