Cyde Weys Musings

One of my fellow Diamondback opinion columnists is being raked over the coals in online comments posted on her latest opinion column. I guess I’m lucky; either people don’t comment on my columns at all, or the ones who do comment have some absurd argument and they quickly get rebutted by people with more sense. Let’s look at these comments for a second:

are you for serious? another drinking column!?!?!
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Wow. Another award winning, hard pressing journalistic masterpiece by Olivia Logan.

By your last articles, something tells me you’re not giving up alcohol for lent. You might die if you did.

You should giv eup your Diamondback Column for Lent. Svae yourself the embarrassment and the readers several minutes of their time from reading your “lists”.
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Dear Olivia,
Here is a cordial invitiation to join one of our [Alcoholics Anonymous] programs seeing as every single article you have ever written for your column has some ridiculous allusion to alcoholism. There comes a point in life where talking about handles and how hammered you get isn’t cool anymore. It’s about age 17.

Olivia Logan, leading the race in most pointless articles in the diamondback. By far.

Diamondback, have you nothing to offer me other than this dribble? Nothing?
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stop writing, pick a new major
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Your column one giant pile of crap. Please discontinue.

Ouch, now that is harsh. Although somewhat undeserved. I think they do have a point though; Olivia should tackle some more serious topics rather than writing predominantly about fluff. And she really does talk about drinking too often. I really hope her next column is more serious. Hopefully she’s listening to some of this criticism, even if it is a bit gruff.

However, these comments are nothing new, so I’m not optimistic that anything will change. Just look at this comment on her eighth most recent column:

I had no idea your house situation was so uncomfortable for you. I so hope it is much better now!
But, my darling daughter, I have read 5 of your articles and every one involves a story around alcohol consumption. Maybe you could lessen that a bit to sound more professional.
Love, Mom :) [Probably not really her mother]

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