This morning's media parlor game: can the Observer's Gabriel Sherman get NYT op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd to admit she's pissed that one of her two weekly columns was bumped from Sunday to the ghetto-circulation hell of Saturday in the recent op-ed shuffle? Let's tune in and find out!

Ms. Dowd declined to discuss the particulars of the realignment. "It s been a tough transition," she said.

So Dowd "declined to discuss" but couldn't help toss off a vaguely bitter aside. Not bad, Sherman. Verdict: half credit!
To Maureen Dowd, Saturday Times Is Loneliest Day [NYO]