Microsoft is doing away with Hotmail and replacing it something a jillion times better, swear! On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off its new webmail service, which eventually will replace the highly popular Hotmail. The updated service is a big redesign that allows Outlook.com accounts to be synchronized across a range of devices, and includes integration with social networking sites …

The GOP’s House Bipartisan (snort) Legal Advisory Group has requested and received a delayed deadline for when they must respond to two pending DOMA suits before the Supreme Court. As always, super-reporter Chris Geidner gets to what the request was really all about. The deadline extension, which lawyers familiar with the cases say could cause up to a one-week delay …

If this is true, the Huffington Post may have the biggest scoop of the election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington …

Michael Phelps just broke the all-time record held by Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina since 1966. Fifteen gold, 19 total medals. Sorry about the spoiler, but screw you NBC.

By the way, those courageous defenders of freedom at Protect Marriage have a locked Twitter account so they don’t have to defend what they say to their evil little inner circle of goons. Locked accounts are useless, of course, if you use one of the many Twitter APIs like Tweetdeck.

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Via press release from GLAD: Today, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional as a violation of equal protection guarantees. Her ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal …

Tomorrow is the big day for all the hate groups’ Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day. In response, some activists suggest ordering a chicken item from McDonald’s and posting its photo on the Facebook page of your closest Chick-Fil-A franchise. If you’re one of them there “Mickey D’s is death food” folks, the above item is quite lo-cal.

This week’s topics: The Chick-Fil-A saga continues, with a day of protest coming this Wednesday. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives two point five million dollars for a marriage equality vote in Washington state. The Democratic National Committee takes a big step towards endorsing the freedom to marry. Pressure builds on the Supreme Court, and there’s international progress from Scotland to …

Many more examples from Matt Stopera.

AMC wants New Yorkers to know that the Dish Network has dropped them and therefore no Walking Dead for you, Manhattan. Lots of screaming, but just as much “Get out of my way, corpse-face.”(Via Towleroad)

In addition to the DOMA-related cases that landed on the desks of the Supreme Court this month, today they received an appeal on the overturn of Prop 8. Chris Geidner reports: Supporters of California’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex couples from marrying, Proposition 8, have asked the Supreme Court to hear the ongoing challenge to the law in order to reverse …

Nothing but Dress Barn and dollar stores from now on!

And the Romney World Gaffe Tour rolls on!

“A Christian perspective ultimately brought the death penalty upon homosexuality between roughly 350 AD and roughly 1850 or so, for about 1,500 years that form of life had pretty much been eliminated except here and there, it was in the closet, but it was almost unheard of for over 1,000 years, until recently. Of course, now you have a massive, …

Launched yesterday by Google Maps: Have you ever arrived at a subway platform only to find that the train you intended to take is skipping stops, rerouted on another line, or isn’t running at all due to scheduled maintenance? Now when you click on any of the 468 New York City subway stations labeled on Google Maps, you’ll see whether …