There are things that make sense in this crazy world.

Like the Birmingham Water Works taking home the JD Power award for worst customer service in America.

Sense.

Like Newton's third law of motion. Or politics. For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction.

And there are things that make no sense at all.

Like Mo Brooks.

Like the stuff that comes out of Mo Brooks' mouth. Like when and where the stuff flows.

Think of it as Mo's First Law of Motion. When his lips go into action, there's gonna be a reaction.

What really doesn't make sense, though, is Huntsville. Huntsville is one of the most science-smart places in America, but it keeps electing this guy to Congress despite all the bilge he pumps out. If JD Power gave an award for the nation's biggest puzzler, that one would win.

Brooks - in case you've been under a falling pile of rocks and missed it -- said in a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing Thursday that ocean levels are rising across the globe because of rocks tumbling into the sea.

Rocks. Into the sea.

Like we just put too much ice in our tea.

It would have been comical if it had come from a middle school science fair, but it didn't. It came from a guy on a committee making decisions for the most powerful country on earth about the future of the planet.

Brooks made his comments while questioning climate scientist Philip Duffy, who had pointed out that seas across the world are rising four times faster than they did a century ago. Instead of dealing with the ways to protect the future, to consider the possibility climate scientists know what they are talking about, he just threw rocks.

"Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is moving up," he said.

Mo's laws. Perplexing for a scientist.

"I'm pretty sure that on human time scales, those are miniscule effects," Duffy responded.

Which is science speak for - "if any more rocks tumble out of your head, New Orleans will disappear."

Science.

Come on, man. That's not even on Brooks anymore. Everybody in Alabama knows Mo's Laws.

He's the one who said people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for insurance because "people who lead good lives, they're healthy, they've done the things to keep their bodies healthy."

He dismissed climate change in an interview with Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser, saying more carbon dioxide in the air would mean "plant life does better because of the enriched environment on which they can live."

Which is great if you're rooting for the plants.

These are laws we know: Birmingham Water Works customer service stinks and stuff comes out of Mo Brooks' mouth.

No, it's not on him. It's on his hometown. Huntsville, according to the Huntsville-Madison Co. Chamber of Commerce, has the highest per capita concentration of engineers in the country and is ranked third for computer, science and technology workers.

But it just gives him a free pass to make up his own science.

"I've got a NASA base in my district," Brooks told the scientist Thursday. "And apparently they're telling you one thing and me a different thing."

Stuff came out of his mouth, and he blamed it on Huntsville. But then, so does the rest of the world.

John Archibald's column appears in The Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, the Mobile Register and AL.com. Write him at jarchibald@al.com.