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We love that we have such wonderful, wacky, and wild commenters, and we love that you guys disagree, argue, and have intense conversations. But some people need to know how to fight fair. My attention was drawn to this thread on a post about Ron Paul and his racist newsletters. Race is one of the hardest topics to discuss because it is so incredibly fraught, but this discussion just totally got out of hand. Deshklok said, "I find Rockwell abhorrent. He's always been a bigoted racist. I have yet to read, hear or see anything remotely racist coming from RP. (I did see him storm out on Bruno and call him a queer because, well, he was being a disrespectful fag.)" Oh, don't go around dropping the f-bomb! That sentence could have ended with "disrespectful" and been perfectly fine. He needs to realize that no one will pay attention to the substance of an argument once the name calling starts. Rashabon took offense to the slur and fought back, "Ni...

She's the controversial spitfire who's all about her bottom line and cashing her checks. So why is Yandy Smith coming across as THE instigator on VH1's "Love & Hip Hop?"   In an exclusive interview with TheYBF.com, the NY native tells her side of the story and says, "I am not the Don King of Reality TV."   Yandy Smith, the hard-working (ex) manager of rapper Jim Jones feels like she’s getting a bad rap this season of “Love & Hip Hop.” She's the common third party in the TWO major fights of the season ( Chrissy vs. Kimbella & Kimbella vs. Erica Mena ).  Yandy tells us, though, she was justas blindsided as everybody else. And the producers controlled who she brought around the rest of the cast...and set up the scenario which would very likely cause a fight.  Are the producers setting her up to be the bad guy? Hmmmmm……………you decide.  Here's our chat:   YBF: Now y...

Stowe and "her friend Louis" Stefano Guidani I'm Madeleine Stowe. You may know me most recently as Victoria Grayson on ABC's Revenge . While I've seen many things in my 30 years as an actor, I wanted to share the indelible experience of my trip to Haiti just before Christmas. I first went to Haiti more than a year before the devastating quake that shook the tiny country, killing over 300,000 people in seconds. Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis gathered together a small group of friends, myself included, we took the trip, and after which, we formed Artists For Peace and Justice (APJ). APJ supports the stunning education, medical, and social efforts of a local Doctor and priest, Father Richard Frechette at his Haitian-run St. Luke organization . They've served for 25 years, reaching the poorest and often forgotten areas of the nation â€" places in the Cite Soleil that even the U.N. fears and won't step foot in â€" and continue their effo...

As we count down the final hours of 2011 and look forward to (perhaps drunkenly!) turning the calendar to 2012, the general consensus amongst resolution makers is the same as always: have a better next year. For some people in Hollywood, however, keeping things exactly the same sounds like a pretty good option, too. In a town of winners and losers, these stars came out on top in 2011, with big hits, big headlines and big smiles. From breakout stars with a career's worth of film credits in one year to spotlight grabbers with the smarts to keep interviewers wanting more, the following celebs had some of the best years in the business. An Emmy for "Mike and Molly" and the absolute breakout performance of 20...

From left: Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Bruno Mars Humberto Carreno/Statraks; Brian Prahl/Splash News Online; Lionel Hahn/Abaca Nightlife Lavo Las Vegas, NV to my to do list It seems Sin City is the place to be this New Year's Eve. Celebrities like John Legend, Guns N' Roses and members of the Kardashian family are set to ring in the New Year on the Las Vegas Strip. Across the country, Lady Gaga will kick off the countdown to midnight in New York's Times Square. But that's only a taste of all the stars toasting the arrival of 2012. Other celebrity New Year's Eve Events include ... LAS VEGAS • Kim Kardashian will be raising a glass at TAO in the Venetian hotel. • Chris Brown will be at the Sin City nightclub Pure at Caesars Palace. • Fergie plans to attend the New Year's Eve party at The Mirage's 1 OAK, presumably planting a kiss on husband Josh Duhamel at midnight. Her Black Eyed Peas bandmate, Will.i.am., will be at the Strip ni...

Forget SOPA . The biggest online intellectual property story last week was the shutdown of a website offering downloads of the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , which shook the burgeoning "brony" community to its core.    Bronies (bro+pony) are adult male fans of the new series launched in 2010 based on the classic ‘80s My Little Pony toy that [spoiler] your mom secretly threw out your collection of when you went to college.   If you think bronyism sounds like something only a serious pervert living in his mother's basement would be into, you're only about 30% correct. To address your immediate question: it's not ironic.  It's nerdy guys who genuinely enjoy an animated series about ponies.  The show has a legitimate appeal to older audiencesâ€"high production values, snappy dialog, and a heartwarming message.  But the online fan culture of bronies grew out of 4chan , so they have a computer nerd vestigial tail of Mountain Dew, ...

NEW YORK -- Hollywood loves the Next Big Thing, and four years ago, that was Barack Obama, the equivalent of a breakout movie star. "He is `The One,'" said Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity champion. "The best candidate I've ever seen," said George Clooney. Halle Berry said she'd "collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear." Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am chimed in with the famous "Yes We Can" video. But you can't be the Next Big Thing twice and as a new election year dawns, there's clearly a different mood in heavily Democratic Hollywood. That means less gushing, not to mention snippets of criticism, most prominently from actor Matt Damon, who campaigned for Obama last time but now makes no secret of his di...

The Best Things We Read All Year If you're like us, you spent a lot of time this year reading words. But which words were the best words? (Not "amazeballs," for sure.) Here, each Gawker staffer recommends the best things he or she read this year-books, articles, blogs, comics and more. More » Ten People Who Should Quit the Media in 2012 This is not just a list of media people we don't like. Nor is it just a list of media people who had a bad year. This is a list of media people whoâ€"abundant evidence showsâ€"should not be in the media. More » How Your Privacy Will Be Invaded in 2012 In 2011, tech villains found creative new ways to violate our privacy. They misappropriated our social networking profiles, stalked us through our phones, and plucked secrets from our wifi networks. More » The Year in Lies Lies: They travel halfway round the world before the truth gets its boots on. If you don't tell them, you never have to remember ...

Greg Gayne/FOX Who knew douchiness could be so adorkable?! We're thinking douchebags all over the world should be sending Max Greenfield , who plays the lovable Schmidt on Fox's hit comedy New Girl , bottles of champagne for the New Year considering how much he's improved their rep since September. Despite making regular deposits in the D-bag Jar, Schmidt's won over fans with his eternally optimistic attitude and ridiculously funny one-liners. (One of our favorites? "You've got some Schmidt on your face!") Oh yeah, constantly showing off his abs doesn't hurt, either.  We chatted with Greenfield about playing the gloriously strange Schmidt, that online dating video inspired by The Hills and if there's anything he isn't willing to do for a laugh... MORE: Best of 2011: Top 10 TV "OMG" Moments of the Year! Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . W...

WireImage; Getty Images; Paramount Happy New Yearâ€"almost! The last seven days of 2011 pretty much flew by, what with the holiday stand-still and all (no mail, no courts, no Charlie Sheen domestic incident, etc.) and now we are thrilled to bring you the final Week in Review of the year. Though the news from this past week doesn't bode well for all, we can only guess what 2012 will bring for the stars we love. Not to mention the celebs we love to hate, the celebs who hate each other and the ones who have carved out a little piece of paradise in the spotlight together. And with that, we bid 2011 adieu... BEST OF 2011: Top 10 Outrageous Celebrity Quotes EX-MAS TIME: Katy Perry and Russell Brand spent Christmas apart , Russ walked around without his ring and, then, while were waiting for the last-ditch camping trip, he went and filed for divorce after 14 months of marriage. We understand why the spunky duo fell in love, but we were always at a loss as to how they cou...

If you're like us, you spent a lot of time this year reading words. But which words were the best words? (Not "amazeballs," for sure.) Here, each Gawker staffer recommends the best things he or she read this yearâ€"books, articles, blogs, comics and more. Seth Abramovitch "Boys Town" by Jim Shepherd in The New Yorker (sub. only) This was a short story from the Nov. 8, 2011 issue of the New Yorker. Something about the opening sentence ("Here's the story of my life: whatever I did wasn't good enough, anything I figured out I figured out too late, and whenever I tried to help I made things worse.") spoke to me and my sad little turkey burger at the counter of an L.A. diner. It just seemed like the right place and time to read a story that started that way. The narrator was 39, my age, and I instantly liked the guy. We were way different. He had just come back from the Iraq War, lived with his mom, who put him down a lot. He was ...