The vast majority of DU supports Snowden's and Greenwald's actions

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264. That KGB friend of Putin's, who is now his lawyer (gee, what a coincidence), gave him

some Russian language material--either a book or Rosetta Stone, don't remember which.

It is a hard language, but it doesn't take a horrible amount of work to be able to communicate simply. If it were me, I'd have my nose in a newspaper every day, translating the short articles, and I'd have the TV on constantly and try to talk to people and have them correct me--I do the hear/talk/read learning thing well.

Of course, nowadays, there are translator apps available so you can have an interpreter in your pocket, in essence. I sometimes wonder if I would have taken the effort to learn the languages I did learn, had such a thing been available to me when I was in need of being able to speak another tongue. I used to think the "pocket dictionary" -- which was fairly complete, with small print, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, for foreign languages was a gift from the gods. I've got quite a few of 'em that are very well thumbed.

As for ES, he called himself an "indoor cat." He probably spends most of his days farting around on the computer. Nothing wrong with that, but if he's used to actually "working" and interacting with fellow employees, maybe competing with them a bit, he's gotta be bored out of his skull.