Joan Walsh

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Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 8:14 PM UTC

Two things to make you smile today

Dick Armey as you've never seen him, and Obama hugging Lilly Ledbetter after signing the fair pay act.

By Joan Walsh

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One of these videos will bring tears of some sort to your eyes, I promise.

First, reader catmoose’s great remix of my afternoon with Dick Armey, set to (what else?) “I’m too sexy.”

Even more inspiring, here’s President Obama talking about Lilly Ledbetter, his grandmother and his daughters, and signing his very first bill. Watch it all the way through.

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Joan Walsh joined Salon in 1998 to become the first full-time news editor and became editor in chief in February 2005. At the end of 2010, she became editor at large, to write full time. In the last couple of years she's had the privilege of debating conservative zealots on

TV, from Bill O' Reilly to Dick Armey to Pat Buchanan.

As a columnist for San Francisco Magazine, she won Western Magazine Awards in 2004 and 2005 for writing about local politics. She's written for everyone from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to Vogue and the Nation.

Before she joined Salon, Joan spent many years as a freelancer. She also ran her own business, consulting to national foundations and nonprofits on education, community development and urban poverty issues. She's a crazy San Francisco Giants fan and co-wrote a book about the ballpark back in 2001.