Ah, look who’s finally here. It’s you! And you’re just in time, too. The band’s gone home, and the angel ice sculpture is starting to melt, but we’ve still got the open bar. And the fruit and cheese are hardly touched.

The Grand Opening Celebration of blog.gleeson.us was hampered by a spot of domain name resolution troubles, I’m afraid. Frightful business, simply frightful. Hundreds of visitors stranded, couldn’t find us, not even with a map and a bloodhound. But that’s all behind us, now that you’re here. So, how are you? But enough about you.

If you haven’t seen blog.gleeson.us over the past week or so, you’ve missed some blockbuster blogging. There was our exclusive unearthing of John Kerry’s cheat sheet, just for instance. Then for good measure, we unearthed John Edwards’s cheat sheet, too. You also missed little girls in aprons, the most confusing veep debate ever, the cropped photo that didn’t make it to the evening news, a teddy bear in a little hat, the first Bush-Kerry debate, and crime-fighting cheerleader Kim Possible. And more besides.

But not to worry, we left all that stuff sitting there for you to enjoy at your leisure. Stay as long as you like. And come back whenever you like. Our door is always open. For you, we mean.

But don’t forget to go read important stuff on other blogs, too. Like, um, well, here. Oh, and here, and here.

Bartlesville, Oklahoma (pop. 35000) is the seat of skinny Washington County, in the northeasterly part of the state. I went to “B’ville” (as it’s nicknamed) one morning in 1996 as part of my job for the Oklahoma Press Association, to help out Joe Edwards at the daily newspaper up there, the Examiner-Enterprise. I couldn’t stay long, because I had to make it to Pawhuska for lunch (at Bad Brad’s Barbecue Pit). But I did get to see gorgeous downtown Bartlesville. Like all Oklahoma towns, Bartlesville has big skies and clean air.

And as you may have read here, the air in B’ville just got even cleaner.

Embattled CBS anchorman Dan Rather’s afternoon feature on a Bartlesville radio [sic] has been yanked off the air, at least for the time being.

KWON Radio Station General Manager Kevin Potter made the announcement this week, saying that Rathers’ “questionable fact-finding and news reporting” during the presidential campaign has “irritated” radio listeners across the country and that Bartlesville listeners are no exception.

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“You look to network news anchors as professionals in the business who are expected to uphold the traditions of people such as Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow,” said Potter. “When they break the public’s trust, affiliate stations have no choice but to act accordingly.”

Mr. Potter was being modest. Affiliate stations do have a choice, and precious few of them so far have chosen the way of truth and integrity. Here’s hoping that more follow the path being blazed in Washington County. I just want to extend my congratulations to Mr. Potter and the people of B’ville. And say howdy to Joe Edwards.

(The painting above is “Wild Morning Glories,” by Charles Courtney Curran, 1904, exhibited at the Price Tower Museum in Bartlesville, the only Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper in the world. Just so you know.)