Free gas, the Phillies and sex -- today's open thread

Can you find a link between the items in that headline? -- because I sure can't. Working the Friday late shift, so you'll need to talk amongst yourselves today. Too bad, because there's a lot to riff on, including:

1) With gas at $4-a-gallon, this is what Rick Santorum considers "a wake-up call" -- now you know why he's a newspaper columnist today and not a U.S. senator.

2) Christine M. Flowers is furious at the police commissioner and the mayor -- why does she have such little respect for authority figures? Sad.

3) Anatomy of smear, 2008: Why millions of Americans think Obama is a Muslim.

Discuss.