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Would you put a porta-potty inside your home? I certainly wouldn’t. Call me unreasonable, but when I have finished my business in the bathroom, I take great comfort in the ability to flush it away. However, were it a hundred years ago, and I did not have indoor plumbing, I would have an outhouse in my back yard. Inconvenient perhaps, but necessary. Even our primitive ancestors from a century ago, who had no Internet, no cell phones, and no television, understood the need for keeping human waste away from their living quarters. Why, then, would a brand new, multi-million-dollar facility employ the modern equivalent of an outhouse inside its men’s room?