Fonterra CEO's $8m pay met with calcium-rich smiles across NZ.

COMMENT: The hidden blessing here is a gentle test run for the apocalypse.

Raybon Kan has a different take on the last election debate.

COMMENT: This week has been a highlight reel from the Book of Revelation.

Some politicians would do the world a favour by sleeping more, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: Questions to Ardern have shamefully revealed the extent of the patriarchy.

COMMENT: Turei's confession reminder playing field has never been level.

COMMENT: Raybon Kan muses on the realities of fake news.

If Trump is set to launch, best learn archery or loosen drug laws.

Raybon Kan can't wait for the arrival of the America's Cup to solve all our problems.

COMMENT: This is what happens when we allow toddlers to enter politics, writes Raybon Kan.

The movie Wonder Woman raises ethical questions about the views of its Israeli star

COMMENT: What a weekend for women, writes Raybon Kan.

Raybon Kan wonders where the hate campaign against KFC will end.

COMMENT: If everyone wins a prize, it's a bit like nobody did, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: Why tipping is a bad idea, says Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: New Zealand probably was picked last for the team the fifth of Five Eyes.

COMMENT: Digital age helping turn web content into 24/7 addiction.

COMMENT: Lush NZ site shows they're partial to a cushy work junket.

COMMENT: An undercover mission shows how greatly carers deserve pay rise.

SBW moves in mysterious ways. Now his jersey collar is in the limelight, writes Raybon Kan

Raybon Kan thinks sharp-eyed TV viewers could tackle more than golf infringements.

COMMENT: Trumps pro-pollution law change, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: Reality may be looming for Americans, says Raybon Kan.

OPINION: The principle that nobody owns our water hasn't stopped water bottling companies from gaining ownership for free.

OPINION: How old is too old to work? The retirement age was always an approximation, writes Raybon Kan.

OPINION: 2040, you may recall, is the year this Government plucked from the carbon-emission-filled air, to promise that 90 per cent of NZ's lakes and rivers will be swimmable.

COMMENT: Robots own the future. writes Rayon Kan.

COMMENT: As if driving on the wrong side of the road isn't confusing enough, what's really confusing is sitting in the wrong side of the car, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: How backwards does that make us, to lag behind America in drug policy? Writes Raybon Kan.

We're connected to a hypodermic drip of crazy, and the generic name is Dystopia.

COMMENT: Raybon Kan says, just living here, in plain old New Zealand, we've been Doomsday preppers without knowing it.

COMMENT: Trump's inauguration will be a showcase of the good, the bad and the bigly. Minus the good.

Top 10 predictions for 2017

The Happy Poem of 2016.

COMMENT: With the pure evil of Trump's corporate take-over of the White House, it's hard to feel Christmassy, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: Bethlehem can't rival Auckland motel's $2300 rate for homeless.

COMMENT: In a week that went downright paranormal - mass salmoncide? - here was another blow to Nostradamus.

COMMENT: Three strikes and you're out. If any expression shows the influence of America, this is it.

COMMENT: CNN this week had a discussion where the screen read: "Alt-Right Founder Questions If Jews Are People."

First, thanks for your concern. Here in Wellington, I was very brave during the earthquake. In my own mind, I even showed leadership.

COMMENT: OMFG. We didn't think it was possible, writes Raybon Kan.

The left make all the good art, but it doesn't seem to have made us better people.

COMMENT: Given the housing crisis the last thing we want is to look sexier to the world.

COMMENT: This week, junior doctors are on strike because of their rosters (max 72 hours a week). ONLY 72 hours a week?

COMMENT: Let's be honest: people having sex in a toilet is by no means the worst crime you've ever heard against a toilet.

COMMENT: The burqa isn't some post-feminist freedom from a bad hair day. It's a mistake we made to get here.

COMMENT: If any choice of two options could be described as a no-brainer, this is it. So how can there be undecided voters in America?

COMMENT: I think we have a winner for Lawyer of the Year. The award goes to the wizard who side-stepped jail time for Nikolas Delegat.

The Paralympics have begun, which means it's time to start booing every other country's disabled athletes.

COMMENT: Welcome to Instagram New Zealand. The photos look great, but the reality is something else, writes Raybon Kan.

I'm no expert in the $43 million case of William Yan, aka Yong Ming Yan, aka Bill Liu, aka Yang Liu, but it's fascinating.

I don't subscribe to Sky, says Raybon Kan. Our taxpayer-funded Olympic team shouldn't perform behind a paywall, unless the event is one of our athletes pole-vaulting over it.

The water in the diving pool has turned green. Raybon Kan asks: Are the divers all using the pool as some kind of communal drug test?

Did David Bain do it? That's one question. The other one is this: did he get a fair trial? I was gonna write two versions of this.

COMMENT: The Government's decreed NZ will be predator-free by 2050. That means rats, possums and stoats.

COMMENT: It's official. Donald Trump - yes, that one, the one from TV - is legit running for President.

COMMENT: Self-driving vehicles and cellphone game are slowly taking over the world one step at a time.

The Government is planning to lend $1 billion to councils. For infrastructure.

I went from pretty much not even knowing there was a referendum to a complete three-day bender - or was it four days?

Often, driving in Auckland, I feel like I'm in a failed state. Have warlords taken over?

What makes people get into politics? Imagine being the Minister of Social Housing, and seeing someone who helps the homeless as the enemy.

She's making history - but not in the way Helen Clark has had to.

For some reason, the Ministry for Primary Industries is one I don't know much about.

"Budgets are not just an accounting exercise," said Bill English, as he delivered the accounting exercise known as a surplus.

Dearly beloved: there's a petition to challenge the dress code for this year's school ball at St Dominic's Catholic College, a girls' high school in West Auckland.

Housing crisis, what housing crisis? It depends on what you mean by crisis, says the Government. And of course, what you mean by housing.

COMMENT: This week, it seems, we are through the looking glass, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: When MediaWorks chief executive Mark Weldon resigned, the tribute flowed in. That's not a typo, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: People without residency shouldn't be allowed to own NZ real estate. Land is the fundamental ingredient of a country, writes Raybon Kan.

Certainly you won't hear a peep out of our Prime Minister - he's in Beijing to make a deal.

COMMENT: You say your dangerous dog is a teddy bear? I say you're wrong, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: The fact that so many of the people wrapped up in the Panama Papers are in government shows there's no political will to change the situation, writes Raybon Kan.

COMMENT: Did nobody see this coming? NZ Post is in trouble. Well, surprise, surprise.

COMMENT: Even Star Wars predicted people would be replaced in industry by R2D2, C3P0 and their buddies.

COMMENT: Whatever you do, don't do the Kiwimeter survey. I just did, only because it was trending, and now I feel both dumber and more annoyed than before I began.

RAYBON KAN: The Bachelor NZ is in the wrong time slot ... by 200-odd years.

'If they don't vote for change now, they'll never get another chance until we become a republic," said the PM this week, finally making some sense, writes Raybon Kan.