A late-breaking report on both MSNBC and our local KTLA, just a few minutes before this post:  thousands of dead anchovies popping up in one of our marinas here.  This appears to be the Long Beach/San Pedro harbor area, 30 miles south of downtown L.A.  Apparently this happened overnight or early this morning, and were discovered just now by harbor police.  For some reason, this strikes me as being even more disquieting than beached whales.