SPACESHIPS AND LIQUOR is a collection of both amusing and deadly serious essays, vignettes and commentaries on life in contemporary America. The author includes a section he calls "Politically Incorrect," wherein he trods in opinionated territory, not always comfortably. You may not agree, but you will not be bored. Balancing this are more neutral and light-hearted views of the author's friends and his various involvements. Someone said to him recently, "Didn't I see you this summer in Moscow?" The author invites the reader to return with him from "an African adventure" and travel across three time zones from east to west in the United States-a "mental travelogue." And to join him on some imagined intellectual precipice to enjoy the view-before jumping