Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 12/19

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Celebrating another day of great Kansas City weather.

While Missouri is in the act of banning foods such as imitation butter, Kansas City with a Russian Accent has some other foods he’d like to see banned. [KC With a Russian Accent]

I love coffee (to the tune of six-plus cups a day) and I also love most things related to coffee, including music. Midtown Miscreant put together a fine list of 10 songs about coffee to get you in the mood. [Midtown Miscreant]

There’s a certain schadenfreude in laughing at the mostly rich people scammed by Bernie Madoff, but don’t forget, the Ponzi scheme ruined a lot of non-Wall Street businesses like the non-for-profit Fair Food Foundation. [NYT]

Here’s a great story. A pair of gay penguins at a zoo were stealing eggs from other nests so the keepers gave them their own egg and now they’re the best parents in the zoo. This is taking place in Northern China and makes the Chinese look more tolerant than Californians. [Daily Mail] — Owen Morris