First, from the   Sunday New York Times :  The Sunday Question:  How long will McCarthy last as speaker?  McCarthy's concession to win the job made it easier for hard-right lawmakers   to oust him,   so his tenure could be short.  But Democrats looking to cut deals with McCarthy could  supply votes to save him   if conservatives revolt. Also, tomorrow night, TCU vs Georgia for the NCAA football championship, and on Tuesday, the release of Prince Harry's memoir,  Spare . I yesterday watched on my local PBS channel,  First Contact:  An Alien Encounter , a British program dramatizing what would happen if we encountered an incoming alien signal and/or artifact.  While this  Guardian  review  did not take the effort too seriously, I did agree that it was mostly boring.  Yet, triggered was my posting of today on this subject, and the subject of the day...imagination.  Oh, here is a  list of 655 films featuring extraterrestrials , so my wild dabblings are sometimes popular. Sunday is