Check out the week's editorial cartoons -- and a shout out to Bob Geiger

Bob Geiger has posted his weekly compilation of the week's best editorial cartoons. As usual, there are some that will make you laugh out loud.

Bob also includes a personal note in his intro to the cartoons. Seems our good friend is taking a breather:

I turned 50 earlier this month. And, while it is not written that hitting the half-century mark should be a time of great reflection, it seems as good a time as any to reevaluate my direction and decide how I would like the next decades to look.

Based on such an assessment, I have decided to take an extended break from writing this blog and covering the United States Senate. In addition to needing time to consider where I would like to go from here in my writing career, I feel a real imperative to make my physical fitness and health a greater priority.

Over two years of essentially working two full-time jobs -- like many bloggers, I also work a corporate day job -- and getting an average of four hours of sleep a night doesn't cut it for me any longer. But without any support or funding for our efforts, the vast majority of liberal bloggers do this for free, using every spare hour and minute, in the hope of changing the direction of our country and being a loud voice toward that end. But that level of devotion -- obsession? -- is not unlimited and, for each of us, it has a finite lifespan based on how long we hold off exhaustion and avoid burn-out.

That time has come for me.

One of the great things about writing on AMERICAblog has been the opportunity to meet so many very cool and great people who share the same world view. Bob Geiger is one of them. He's truly an amazing man. I've said several times that Bob knows more about the U.S. Senate than most Senators and a whole lot of Senate staffers. It's true. We've all benefitted from his work -- and hopefully will again soon. Bob promised that this isn't good-bye and there may be some "wild stuff" to come. We hope so.