David Grassmick

New dad to buddy at work, “do you change diapers?” Work buddy, “I plead the fifth.” New dad, “C’mon.” Work buddy, “little Bob started calling the au pair mommy.”

Don’t forget, new book is out on Kindle. It is entirely fiction. But it tells the truth about higher education.

Body count has become a thing with marriage. Men have it backwards. If a professional escort has slept with a 1000 guys and picks you for marriage, you should feel flattered. Good sample. If a twenty something girl who has slept with two guys before you picks you, no reason to…

Pro tip: if you are a new college student this year. When you buy a paper or speech from someone make sure you know who wrote the original document. My first year as a graduate instructor a delightful sorority woman gave a wonderful speech in my public speaking class. Best speech…

The best thing mom gave me freshman year of college was the tin of home made cookies I took back to school after Christmas. It lasted maybe 12 minutes.

Parents it’s almost that time of year when you take little junior away to college. Pro tip, virtually every college town has a Wal-Mart or Target. LL Bean delivers everywhere and so does Amazon. You don’t need to shop until you get there and actually look at the dorm room. You…

About Epstein: 1) he’s a creep 2) so is Ghislane 3) he likely was someone’s intelligence op 4) he’s probably not dead 5) he took orders from someone 6) part of the intelligence op is probably ongoing 7) the push to release the list is designed to wreck the ongoing op 8) Trump is…

The Band is one of the most amazing music groups ever. Their song “the night they drive old Dixie down” could not be produced or performed today. We have become a failed nation.

Look at the facts. In Sarah Huckabees’s Arkansas it’s legal for 14 year olds to work. If we want to end child labor in America let’s start with red states that allow child labor.

The best white college professors give the worst grades to talented white Male students because those students are the competition. All college grades are fraudulent. It is all about culling the herd.

I used to teach college. There is a phenomena that all young male faculty with any talent experience: groupies. You have young women who follow you, will date you, will read anything you write. The young women jump you, not the other way around. I had to stop using AOL under my…

It’s pure puffery when a college professor says he’s delighted to read a student’s dissertation. In real terms in the humanities and social sciences, the possible ideas for the near term are finite. When your student writes something that crowds you out. The rule in the…

The Epstein list plainly is someone’s “op”. Suggestion as opposed to making a plain statement is a powerful tool of persuasion because our imagination does the lifting. For a nation raised on the JFK assassination, the Church Committee, Watergate, Monica and such, a secret list…

The best part about teaching college when I started was the intellectually curious minds. Those minds are gone. Students today are about checking boxes and learning the magic words. They all know if they whine, mommy will make it better.

The zoom call has wrecked business communication. You lose pre-meeting one on one chat. You change interpersonal space. Every looks at other screens and ignores the meeting. Zoom atomizes.

Small liberal arts colleges are failing because they don’t have anything to offer students today. You can sit in a library and read the important books. You can use computer learning for math and language. What’s left?

Remember in higher education tenure track hiring is zero sum. In any field there might be two good jobs in a year and five average jobs. If I get hired, that’s one less job for you. Never help friends get jobs the year you are on the market.

Rule number one in higher education. If you are junior faculty, you have no friends. There are only users. Academic publishing is zero sum. If I get published, you don’t.

Higher education is a bit more twisted than folks could imagine.