YouTube flash mob video provokes thought

There should be a small box ad in every newspaper in America which would direct fellow citizens to a YouTube showing under a "flash mob" search:

• Flash mob in Moscow Feb. 26, 2012, "Putting on the Ritz".

If it were not for politics, every average citizen in America would be shaking hands with every average citizen in Russia and saying things like "We are all in this together," and "Look what a great sunrise," and "how are your children today?"

JAMES RICHARD JOHNSON

Clark Fork