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George Pyle: If the issue is not enough babies, Mike Lee is part of the problem, not the solution

“Sure overpopulation is a problem. That’s why people should have lots of babies. Because one day, one of those babies is going to grow up and solve that problem.”

In geometry, any two points make a line. In professional punditry, any three points constitute a meaningful trend.

• Point 1: Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee made a total fool of himself by standing up on the floor of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body to claim that the answer to problems caused in large part by the overpopulation of the world was for people to have more babies.