Dumb Stories Chronicals: 300 milionth American

This has got to be one of the dumbest stories I've seen in a long time. Is it a big deal that America now has 300 million people? Sort of, but only in the sense that it focuses us on population issues. What is truly idiotic about this story, though, is the need to identify one baby as that 300 millionth person. It is impossible to do, and for all we know it could be a black baby in Michigan, a white baby Kansas, or a newly minted citizen from Eastern Europe. Really, let's talk about the issue of population but dispense with this identification of "the one" thing.