DIGG THIS Flash Gordon was one of my favorite shows as a child (showing my age here). Watching the rocket ships flying through space trailing smoke and pretending not to see the puppeteer’s wires as Flash roamed around outer space saving people, doing good things, being an American dammit. Star Trek was no better — bigger ships, more enemies, but still saving people doing the right thing, having the right stuff. American ingenuity would inevitably have all this technological stuff just around the corner. Democracy would get crammed down the throats of everybody and the galaxy and they would like … Continue reading Voyage to Mars