Michele is accepting applications for articles and blog entries for her "Required Reading for 2002":

No matter what your ideology, politic or point of view, if you felt something - a blog post (yours or someone else's), a meme, a news article - was especially important, profound or maybe just hysterically funny, please send it to me [Michele] and I'll start compiling a year-end round up of what made us tick in 2002.