"I discovered a horse with one of his legs shot off, on his back a good outfit," he wrote.
To make his point, he deploys a very Gladwellian trick: he shoots off on an anecdote.
"When guys like me start to shoot off on stuff like this it's really ill-advised.
The example of Rowling and her critics suggests that if writers ever got near a legislature, they would scream, twist, shoot off on demented political trajectories and censor.
Tells about other elaborate displays, and about New York ruling about fireworks: they can be sold, but not shot off on N. Y. soil.
"He puts the van in drive and it shoots off on him, mowing down pedestrians," said Sgt. Ralph Carone, a police spokesman.
"When guys like me start to shoot off on opinions about this kind of stuff, it's really ill-advised," Chris Christie told an interviewer asking about Iran, preferring to discuss his thumping re-election as governor of New Jersey.
Keneally frequently shoots off on tangents, talking with such ferocity he seems certain he will run out of time before he's said all that needs to be said.
The two became friends, watching television, visiting the Rosenberg Library, drinking at the Poop Deck bar and shooting off handguns on a deserted stretch of nearby Pelican Island.
In Indiana, burn bans are in effect 74 of 92 counties, and 45 counties have restrictions on shooting off fireworks.
