Craig Kilborn

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.