Ridiculously Short Post

Yup, that's a tree that has been split. I suspect it was due to lightning (but I don't have any other explanation for such a sight). What do think happened?
Something even more ridiculous brought to you by Walgreens:

Those must be some fancy eggs. Organic eggs hand rinsed off by hand. Or did they mean 2 dozen eggs for $3.00? In that case, they're probably not free range and packaged individually.