The White House released the official portrait of the first family. Annie Liebovitz took over for Pete Souza for this one, which seems unfair to us. Anyway, where has Bo run off to? [via Ben Smith]

Annie Liebovitz will photograph literally anyone, as long as they are marginally famous. Ever since Watergate she has taken portraits of schlubby double-chinned Administration staffers, so as to glorify the current President and reassure the nation that, while power changes hands occasionally, it transfers cleanly from one self-satisfied bureaucrat to the next. MORE »