Can't swing a dead cat around the blogosphere these days without hitting a site that's going after Rep. Bill Sali and his staff.

New to the fray are the editors over at the Idaho Press-Tribune, who unveiled their blog Wednesday. Among the first posts is one titled "Wayne Hoffman: The man behind today's launch."

Hoffman is Rep. Bill Sali's spokesman and a former Press-Tribune (and Statesman) reporter. Hoffman was so exercised by a Sunday Press-Tribune editorial criticizing Sali's dysfunctional office operations that he said, a bit hyperbolically, that the piece bordered on libel (Click here for the quote).

Not so, said Press-Tribune managing editor Vickie Holbrook, in this post that outlines the bright-line difference between opinion and libel.

I guess there's a lesson here, to modernize an old bromide, about picking a fight with the guys who buy bandwidth by the barrel. But I guess it could have been worse. The Press-Tribune editors could have stolen a cue from this character and named their blog "Wayne Hoffman Fan."