MICKEY KAUS: Tim Noah Buries The Lede: “Wait. You mean that social-democratic, union-heavy, solidaristic Germany has worse income inequality, before taxes and transfers, than the cowboy capitalistic U.S., with its large underclass and out-of-control Wall Street greedheads? Don’t tell the narrative. . . . Maybe the stats Noah relies don’t capture what people like him think is important, in which case they shouldn’t be relied on so often. Or maybe the narrative needs some rejiggering.” Nonsense. Facts are adjusted to fit the narrative, not the other way around.