A Couple of weeks ago Laura and I went to dinner with our friends Abigail and Andrew. We Chose Everest on Grand, a Nepali restaurant in St Paul.

About halfway through our meal, I noticed a very tall and vaguely familiar man standing in the entry to the restaurant. Shortly later, the man and the woman accompanying him were seated at a table right next to us.

I whispered to Laura “Is that the guy from Babe?”.

She turned around and said “Oh My God, it is!”

We confirmed it with Andrew and Abigail, and Andrew got this video on his phone.

Not the most famous of celebrities (None of us even knew his name, but we all knew the face) but fun nonetheless. I Looked him up on IMDB later that night, and found out that he is an interesting guy. He’s outspoken on several progressive causes and animal rights (He’s been banned from Wendy’s in Virginia after being arrested during a PETA protest) and in the 60’s was a supporter of the Black Panther Party.

According to this story on CNN.com, Bush recently responded to people in opposition to his terrorist-surveillance program by comparing the threat of Al Qaeda to the threat of the rise of Lenin and Hitler and saying that Americans are making the terrible mistake of “underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men…”.

Hitler and Lenin used fear to manipulate their followers into granting them unchecked power. That Bush would cite these men as examples in order to convince Americans to give up more of our civil liberties is beyond ironic.