They need you, too. The thing is, we only run one column per day. We want competition among the columnists to see which epic finds the light of a printed page. Only the best, the most insightful, the most timely columns even stand a chance. That's up to you.
Short sentences work.
In other cases, more eloquent writers choose to ramble on and one with long, winding sentences, many incorporating smaller dependent clauses so as to offer an air of sophistication, as if that impressed readers all by itself. Again, no charge. If you didn't like a column that was written here today, act on that rage. Show us you can do it better than the idiot who filled the space so blandly. Convince us you're right, or just convince us the idiot is wrong.