A couple of weeks ago, Gelf noted that CNN.com seems to have decided that some of its readers are too busy to deal with its already pared-down articles. So they've started to provide bullet-point summaries at the top of their stories. If that seems like a ridiculous measure to take for a 100-word story about a bear mauling, it's even sillier when applied to stories from The Onion.

CNN occasionally reprints articles from the satire site as part of a business agreement, but the news organization makes sure that its readers don't get confused about the veracity of the stuff they're reading. Each Onion piece is preceded by this announcement:

Editor's note: This may look like a real news story, but it's NOT. It is from the The Onion, a humor publication that calls itself "America's finest news source." CNN may beg to differ, but we do enjoy a good laugh, and hope you will enjoy a weekly selection of their satire.

This week, the satire in question is the article entitled "Karate lessons give child self-confidence to quit karate." (For some reason, we can't locate the original article on The Onion's website.)

The piece contains a telltale Onion-esque trait: The humor (or in this case, the chuckle) is all in the headline. But if you want to know more, CNN added bullet points, perhaps in the spirit of self-parody. Here are those "Story Highlights".

•Sixth-grader stands up to parents, tells them he hates taking karate
•He credits martial arts for making him more assertive, confident
•Father wishes he put his son in soccer instead