PING... He's back in the news again. I've seen him on Fox News Channel 3 days in a row now - short little blurbs, but they're talking about him nonetheless.
"talking about him" ---if history is any guide , that probably means that within about 90 days, something big may happen with his signature on it.
In retrospect, think of how much mention the name Osama bin Laden got on all media (plenty) in the months preceding 9/11, when he was still an abstraction, just one more oddly named menace among many, many, "better-established" menaces.Once 9/11 happened, the name was brought in again, and I'm sure sounded vaguely familiar to a lot of people, but just think of how many times since then you may have seen re-runs, say, of SNL, or some news analysis show, and the name came up from 6 months, a year, or two or even three years earlier.