Don Surber
Don Surber has been a columnist for the Charleston Daily Mail in Charleston, West Virginia for more than twenty years. During his younger days, he also served as a reporter for Stars and Stripes. In 2000, he received a first place award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for newspapers with circulation of under 100,000.
Surber began blogging in February 2005. In 2007 an in-depth study at Carnegie Mellon University surveyed 45,000 blogs and attempted to determine analytically the most influential and informative blogs based on 2006 data. The study placed Don Surber's blog on the list of top 100 most informative blogs. In fact, they placed him number two (That's t-w-o.), behind only Instapundit. In addition to links to and general comments on the leading news stories of the day, his blog also contains recurring themes, with current categories including song parodies, the Daily Scoreboard, and The Week That Was. His tone varies from the deadly serious to the lighthearted. (He recently acquiesced to a suggestion to change an otherwise good article's title from the terminally boring To fix health care, first fix Medicaid to the more interesting Martian Rhinoceros Discovered in the Adirondacks.)
Don has also recently been immortalized in the popular cartoon strip Day By Day by Chris Muir.
He would probably also want me to say something about the Cleveland Indians and about red mustang convertibles, but I won't. :-) He is married and is the father of three grown children. He is becoming one of the premier political writers and commentators in the country, both in print media and in the blogosphere. He is also an LDotter, and, although he doesn't post as frequently as he once did, he still keeps abreast of the site and often links to threads or references information found on Lucianne.com.