Ike Pigott doesn’t get the kind of recognition he deserves. I hope to change that today.

Although he pretends to be curmudgeon who continually fights the status quo, he is the least difficult person I know.

Sure, he fights the status quo and yeah, he’s a bit cynical, but I love those qualities about him. Because a cynical sense of humor is of the smartest kind and, by far, my favorite kind.

He likely is one of the smartest people who participates in social media, which is why it’s so surprising to me that he isn’t on every top 10 list ever written. Perhaps it’s because he’s so smart it’s a bit intimidating at times.

A veteran broadcaster, he claims to have gotten “out of news and back into life.”

He now is a spokesperson for Alabama Power. Imagine how busy he’s been the past week or so with the tornadoes that ripped through there, killing more than 350 people and cutting off power to nearly 350,000 homes. (more…)