I have been following Alfonzo Rachel on YouTube for more than two years now. He’s the guy who used to film himself in front a white wall of his apartment while he ranted about political issues. Since then, he has moved up in the world and will soon be exclusively on PajamasTV. While his videos may look different than they did a year ago (even better, that is), the substance of his messages remain phenomenal.

Zo, as he is often called, has a real gift in presenting conservative principles in a very entertaining way. His choppy, line-by-line rants are filled with fantastic insights mingled with humor. Despite his jokes and satire, he is unmistakably intelligent. His video rants leave conservatives shouting “Amen!” and liberals scratching their heads, trying to think of a good comeback.

As a way of supporting Zo and his efforts, I purchased his new book, Paper, Ink, & What I Think: Zo’s Writ of Rants. As a lover of books and a recovering web designer, I was slightly displeased with the structure of the content. I like things neat and organized. Well, Zo’s book is anything but. It is broken down into chapters, all having unique titles such as “Womb Doom” and “Money is Treated Like Herpes Yet Everybody Wants to Get Infected With It”, but it lacks standard paragraphs and even full sentences. Here is an example:

The conservative republican principle is to look both ways before crossing the street.
The liberal democrat way is to cross the street without looking, and hope that the traffic light has changed to stop traffic from corning their way.
The conservative republican principle works. The problem is that we’ve had too many republicans, acting like liberals, or not standing up to them.
The conservative idea is the more practical application, it’s just not moved with a more effective delivery system.
Liberalism has a more effective delivery system, but the liberal idea is not the more practical application.
Liberalism is delivered with, lasers, gorgeous women…handsome yet questionably straight men, profanity, Karate choppin’ flicks, big, cute, fuzzy wuzzy polar bears, super heroes, coffee, tattoos, booty shakin’ music, fart jokes, etc.
Side note, I’m not suggesting we resort to cheap tactics. Fart jokes are funny though.
Liberalism is the cheapest trick in the book – to create the illusion of looking intellectual, all you have to do is call a well accomplished person an idiot, supplement intelligence with cynicism, and criticism, and you’ll appear smart. Take Bush for instance. If Obama is a genius for going to Harvard, then Bush should be seen as twice the genius because he has degrees from Yale and Harvard. All ya gotta do is call Bush an idiot and you look smart! This works mostly within the liberal community.

This is pretty much what a typical page in the book looks like. It certainly does not read like any other book. In fact, it was difficult to read at first. Then I realized I was reading it all wrong.

If you are unfamiliar with Zo and his video rants and you intend to read this book, you must first watch his videos. Once you’ve done this, you may proceed to read his book. This is necessary because his book reads like a script for one of his videos. You must imagine his voice, his demeanor, and the quick cut-and-paste style of his videos in order for the book to seem fluent to you as you read. Once that is accomplished, this book is actually very entertaining. In fact, several times I laughed out loud.

Much like Zo’s videos, his book is not short on substance. Even though some may be detoured by his slang and his writing style, Zo makes many great points and is quite insightful at times. If you are a true conservative, you will love what he has to say so long as you are not bothered by his delivery.

To buy the book, head over to the Macho Sauce Productions website.