[Hardastarboard]

I was of course joking about 0bama by calling him the Black Death (of Freedom). I was quoting the author of the article, and was a bit surprised to hear that the Black Death was the greatest disaster to ever hit humanity, but I had never heard of the Toba Caldera. I’ll have to look that up. Thanks for the information.

[gleeaikin]

Re Toba, see my comment 31. Also the thousand year cold that interrupted the last warm-up 13 thousand years ago was called the Younger Dryas.

[Ragnar54]

Instead of using "The Black Death" as a nickname for Obama, why not just use an acronym for The Obama Administration?