Kid: So what’s crooked, you or the building?

Legislator: The camera.

Having abandoned its so-call ‘aspiration fund’ – widely slammed as little more than a pork barrel scheme to buy votes in the 2014 elections – the House is now proposing an annual allocation of US$42,000 for each member for ‘aspiration houses’ to fund the building and upkeep of lawmakers’ offices in their districts.