Just as things are heating up in this year's New York governor's race, one of the most memorable Republican candidates for that job in this era, Pierre Rinfret, is retiring...from the web, that is.

(Rinfret lost to Mario Cuomo by 22 points in 1990, after running a somewhat erratic campaign that included an on-the-record reference to comptroller candidate Carol Bellamy as "that idiot woman" and bizarre threats to reporters.)