So I was watching “The Daily Show” with my nine year old son, Benjamin. Now, I know its normally on late at night so they can put on material that isn’t necessarily appropriate for the short set. They were talking about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the M&M balloon that crashed and injured some people.

While describing the picture of the yellow M&M nestled up right behind the red one John Stewart explained that this was a picture of one piece of delightful chocolate sodomizing another.

Naturally Benjamin’s first question was “Daddy, what’s ’sodomizing’ mean?”

Normally Liz is the one who gets these kinds of questions. I have a way of always seeming to dodge the bullet. I mean who wants to talk about sodomy with their nine year old?

What’s a good father to do? Do I settle in and explain the details of what it means? Pros? Cons? Gotchas? Do’s and Don’ts? Etiquette?

I could just explain that he’s too young to discuss such things.

Or you could do what I did.

Just pretend nothing happened.

Nothing.

At all.

Happened.

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