The buck-and-a-half word for today is tergiversate, which means ”to change repeatedly one’s attitude or opinions.“ And as of this week, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd Pellman is Civic Center‘s prime tergiversator.Just look at the way he flipped through his options a few weeks ago on the little matter of dealing with the home health-care workers’ petition for a pay increase.Remember those home health-care workers? They‘re the folks who take care of invalids in their homes. They do stuff you need done for yourself when you are elderly and disabled. It’s a demanding profession, and in Los Angeles County, it pays six bucks and change an hour. Even backwoods Lassen and Siskiyou counties pay the Sacramento-guideline wage of over $8.50 an hour.